How To Boost Up A Weak Colony Before Winter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- How To Boost Up A Weak Colony Before Winter is a video explaining how to take a colony very small, and boost it up into a very strong hive going into winter. It's all about good management.
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Good info. We actually did this just yesterday. Good to know we are doing it correctly. We had a virgin queen somehow sneak past the excluder into the honey super, and we assume she used the upper vent entrance to do her mating flight, and since she was oriented to this entrance she returned mated, and began laying. So when we checked the super, to my surprise we had two queens in this one hive! So we had to do a split, and as the small super frames hatched, we replaced them with full sized brood frames. She needed a bit of help, so we added a couple of frames of capped brood. Capped so they wouldn't have to work as hard. Maybe this will work for us, if so, it would be the first split that they did for us😂!
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@@davidhaught84 Thanks for your tutelage.
I was just searching through some of your old videos for this. I have one weak colony going into winter due to loosing most of my bees from the flooding in Oklahoma. Boosting them with sugar water and ultra bee. Thanks for all your help Dave.
Thanks Dave for the videos. I just used 2 of your queens and made splits using 2 of your two framers!!! Now to get them up to strength.
Good Stuff, thanks David. Phillip Hall
I have boosted weak colonies, but I have never shaken off the bees from the fully capped brood.
Good
What do you do when your sugar water container gets black mold in it?
Do u overwinter in the 2 frame nucs?
Is now the time to do an Oxalic Acid treatment? Treated with Hopguard II a month ago. Mite count was 5/100 yesterday.
If you have a strong 5 frame NUC, would you add a second box or move it to an 8 frame getting ready for winter?
I do all x5 over x5, works for me. (I can't lift full x10s.)
I even Super using x5.
I'm in the UK.... Go by what resources Nature has for your Girls. 🐝
@@ME_MeAndMyBees same system as me and same reason ,I also live in the UK
Did you ever consider buying a head mounted camera??? It would help a lot :-)
Sounds good but my experience in watching bee videos with head mounting cameras, usually miss the most important parts, usually just out of the field of view.
Was there enough bees in that 2 frame hive to keep that much brood warm ?
Ideal for develope AFB
I would of placed that Shook off Bees Frame(s) above another Queen Excluder, in a Box, (above your eg Super, or over a second QE over a Shim,) over your Brood Box... x2 QE gives you Belts & Braces ✓... Knowing the Queen is in the lower Box ! 👍
Why ?
Let the Nurse Bees 'come up overnight' to cover the Brood. That is under the Roof, or if needs be a temporary 'Closed Cover. * (I have a Horizontal Hive *, that had a Slanted Roof.)
... If I add Nucs over the HH Brood, I lay several plastic QE's side by side, add Nuc Boxes, add Capped Brood. Add a large flat Boards, and then close HH as best I can (roof rests on Nucs 🥺 overnight.) Then if it's wet, put a large Plastic Membrane over the lot !
Regular Hive Boxes ?
... just pile that Box on top. Add your Roof and come back the next Day... Easy. 👍
Then taken each Capped Brood Frame AND its associated Nurse Bees, and ADD these to Colonies that needed building up !!! 💪
Add, a Single, or as many Frames, your Weak Colony can take. Give those Shook off Bee 'weak frames' back to donor colonies as 'drawn Comb' to lay up and re Brood on... 😏
Here in the UK, x2 Framers might work for a couple of Months in high Summer. But certainly not in late Autumn, Winter, or even late Spring.
It gets Cold to often ! 🥺
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
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I wonder if a 2 would survive in Southern Michigan? Edit survive the winter.
Hey Dave I'm in Birmingham area and have a hive that's gone queenless. Do you have queens available? And is it too late to introduce a new queen
Are you a Brummie then ?!? 😆
Those who come from Birmingham, UK, are called "Brummies." 👍
How close can you keep two frames to bigger hives
David seems to dot them here and there... 🤭
I would put small Colonies, as a group, together, away from pending Robbers....
Some Beeks even put x5 Nucs butted up against each other, to give warmth and shelter the 'weaker' ones. These are put in the middle slot(s.) You can move these Stronger Colonies to outer position... Knowing the Foragers will come home (gone) to a replaced Weak Hive ! Bonus, Foragers go into the weak one... It gets Stronger. Repeat, repeat. ✓
Hope this helps.
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
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Would a 3 frame do better than a 2 frame for over winter.
Depends on your locality *, climate, resources, etc etc.
x2 Framers would only work for a Couple of Summer Months, here in Scotland.
GA is way more tropic in their Winter 'frosts' than our Freezing blasts.... 🤭
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
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* Go by what your local Beeks experience... Or do a Trial... Experimenting is challenging but rewarding. 👍
@@ME_MeAndMyBees Well my OCD, said to go with even numbers! But that isn't always what is best for the Bees!
The only weak colony I have is in the only top bar hive I have, so swapping out frames is not an option.
Yes you can.... Do Cut Outs... Add 'TBH taken outs' into Regular Frames using Rubber Bands. They will build up the Gaps.
Add by "Cutting Add Ins" by Trimming to Fit TBH. And wind Fishing Line around Comb, up sides, over Top Bar, down other side. Wrap a few times around and around.
Bees will attach comb to Bar within a set time. So you can carefully cut and strip pull that line. Simples.
Hope this helps.
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
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i see a Small hive beetle when you pull the first frame!
Can bearded bees be scooped off the front of a populous hive, and dumped into a weak hive?
Most will fly back. You CAN swap hive positions, in mid-afternoon; foragers from populous hive will return to the site of their former hive, and enter the weak hive you placed there. Adding capped brood, as Dave shows here, is even better because it gives you valuable young bees (nurse bees), to help colony feed uncapped brood. You can do both, of course.
Beading might have Workers* (and possibly some Drones,) that might 'fight*' re aligence to their 'own Queen'. 🥺
Best to harvest Nurse Bees, via Capped Brood, over a QE first.... Nurse Bees are not 'wired hard' to a Queen !
Hope this helps.
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
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I thought the queen was in the cage for 3weeks?